Dialogs are blocking window controls (minimize/maximize/close)

TanelTM · October 16, 2022, 12:49pm

Not a critical bug, just a user-experience annoyance.

Edit: I noticed that Microsoft Teams behaves exactly the same way as Obsidian

Open settings
Open Appearance → Themes → Manage
(You now have 2 dialogs on top of each other)
Click one of the window control buttons (minimize, maximize, close)

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Alternative steps:

Window control buttons to always work
Some examples from other electron apps:
- In VS Code you are able to use window control buttons when you have the command or any other dialog open. The only exception is the [Help → About] dialog.
- Spotify is a great example - Right click on one of your own playlists and choose “Edit details”, a dialog opens and UI interaction is disabled, except for the window controls and menu button.
  
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Clicking window control buttons close an opened dialog and window controls do not trigger until all dialogs are closed
- Scenario 1: Obsidian window was too small and the settings dialog was hard to use, the user might want to maximize Obsidian, but now has to close the settings dialog to maximize and then open settings again.
- Scenario 2: User had a browser open under the Obsidian window. To quickly google about some setting or theme, the user wants to minimize Obsidian to reveal the browser, but now has to close the dialogs first.
A div.modal-bg covers the whole app, including window controls.
- Chromium 102 adds the inert HTML property which could be used to properly (but selectively) make UI elements inert while displaying dialogs. (wink, wink)
  HTMLElement.inert - Web APIs | MDN

WhiteNoise · October 16, 2022, 4:04pm

Moved to FR